Lower-bound infrastructure for hypercubes #
This file starts the formal version of the weight-function lower bound. The
main result here is the first inequality in the paper's lower-bound proof:
for a solvable distribution on Q_n, every target has initial weight at least
one, and hence the sum of all target weights is at least |Q_n|.
For the hypercube, any target reachable from D has initial weight at least
one with respect to that target.
A solvable distribution has target weight at least one for every target.
Summing the target-wise lower bound over all targets gives
|Q_n| ≤ ∑_t W_t(D).
For a fixed hypercube vertex base, the sum of one-pebble weights over all
targets is (3/2)^n.
The double sum of weights factors as |D| * (3/2)^n.
Formal version of the averaged weight inequality
|Q_n| ≤ |D| (3/2)^n for every solvable distribution D.
The lower bound in the paper's usual rational form:
every solvable distribution on Q_n has at least (4/3)^n pebbles.
Lower bound for any specified solvable size.
Lower bound for any k certified as the optimal pebbling number.